EVERY EVERYTHING: The music, Life & Times of Grant Hart; DVD

Grant Hart, Husker Du, Biography, Documentary, Music, Hardcore; DVD (2013)

Writing in City Pages, Reed Fischer said, “In spite of the myriad challenges of his personal and professional life — the fire, the death of family members, his band’s epic dissolution, drug addiction, and coming to terms with his sexual orientation — Hart comes off as a wiser man for all of it. Hearing the way he describes his close emotional friendship with William S Burroughs is worth the price of admission on its own. Sure, there are numerous bits about Mr. Mould and Mr. Norton too, and they’re mostly told with fondness for the fruit before it became poisoned. Hart’s slow and deliberate retellings of his past convey an inner strength that hints at why Bechard wanted to spend so much time with him. Capping the tale with the beginnings of Hart’s epic interpretation of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, The Argument — Chris Strouth has a lot more to say about the album here — the story rests itself in the near-present at a high point in Hart’s storied career. Not every stone was turned over in this tale, but they all at least got a firm jostling.”